Game



July 20 1926.

l. H.4 KAPLAN GAME Original Filed July 12 A TTORNE Y Patented July 20,1926.

UNITED STATES ISRAEL H. IKAPLAN7 OF BROOKLYN, NEW

YORK, ASSIGNOR F ONE-HALF TO BENJA- MIN RABINOWITZ, OF BROOKLYN, NEWYORK.

Y GAME.

Reled for abandoned application Serial No. 567,702, filed .Tune 12-1922.

` November 5, 1925.

rl`his application is reliled for abandoned applioation567,702, filedJune 12, 1922, for substantially the same subject matter.

The present invention relates to a game. rlhe object thereof is toprovide a game which may be played'by persons of anyy age but which ismore especially adapted'for children or personsV of limited knowledge,and it is not only intended as a means of amusement but it is alsoadapted to| familiarize the players with the hours and minutes of theday and the reading of the time on a clock or watch face, and in thisrespect the game is' educational. It is always easy to teach the youngerminds when the teaching is combined with some element of amusement andthe present device is intended to teach the reading of time whileproviding amusement for the pupil. The game is one which may be playedat home and it may with advantage be adopted in the lower or primaryclasses in schools as a very interesting and simple means for teachingpupils the manner of reading or telling time.

The present invention may be embodied in diiierent forms but the basicfeature. re-

sides in providing game members such as Cards provided with amultiplicity of representations of the dials or faces of a time piecesuch as a clock o-r watch, and providing playing members or disksadapted to be associated with the cards and representing thereondiilerent positions oi the hands of a clock at diiferent hoursandminutes of the day. In the preferred embodiment of my inventionthe'playing members have a key cooperating with the cards so that theywill always be properly placed in relation to the cardsy to preventerrors in placing them.

In the drawing orming'part of this applic-ation,

Fig. 1 shows the preferred form of my invention.

Figs. 2 and 3 show the playing discs used thereon.

Fig. 4 shows a modication.

Figs. 5 and 6 show modilied playing discs therefor.

Referring .tirst to the form of my invention shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3I have shown a member 1 which is preferably in the form of a card linedoil by lines 2 to provide a number of regularly disposed Thisapplication inea Serial No. 67,092.

spaces 3. In these spaces are pictorial representations 4 of the face ordial of a clock or other form of time piece, each picture having thecircular outline 5 of a clock face or dial and having the numerals 6arranged around the dial to represent the hour positions of a Clock faceorV dial and having marks 7 representing the minute subdivisions of thehour. On each dial picture there is a pictorial representation of thelarge or minute hand 8 of a clock and at 9 there is a pic` torialrepresentation of the small or hour hand of a clock. In each of thepictorial representations of a clock dial on the several cards of thegame there are hand representations having different locationsrepresenting different time readings. For instance, one dial may havethe hands printed thereon corresponding with the positions of the handsof a clock at lii'teen minutes past twelve oclock. The next dialrepresentation to the right might have vthe hands placed at the 1 and 6,numerals representing minutes pastl oclock. In the preferred form of theinvention there are siX such dial face representations reading from leftto right across each card and three reading from top to bot-tom in eachrow. In the vertical row 10 the hands on each dial rep..-

resentation will be set at some time designation falling between 12 and1 oclock. In the vertical row l1 the hands on eaclidial representationmay be set at some time designation falling between 1 and Qyoclock. Inlike manner the designations in vertical row 12 will be for timedesignations between 2 and 3 oc-lock; lor the row 13 time designationsbetween 3 and -l oclock; for the row 14 time designations between 41 and5 oclock; and for the row 15 time designations between 5 and 46 oclock.By arranging' a second card alongside the card 1 with the columnsdesignated in hours like the above only running from the hour 6-7 to11-12, and with the hands arranged to designate time readings fallingwithin these different hours, the two cards for one player will cover aperiod of twelve hours or one complete revolution of the hour hand oi aclock.Y The cards used by different players will preferably have thehands on the several dials arranged to read differently, so that in allthe cards of all the players there will be no duplication ot timedesignations.

is likewise so marked at 19.

For instance, on the card ol' the first player and in the vertical row10 the time designations as represented V by the printed hand positionsmay be 12.15, 12.30, 12.-'l5; Whereas, in the card 01" the ,secondplayer the des i ations as represented by the printed hands in thei'irst ro\v 10 may be 12.10, 12.25and lt' this scheme is carried outthere will be nol duplication ot' timev designations on the whole set ofcards in the entire game.Y This is notaieeessary but it is a desirableplan because it provides -l'or a greater total ot time designations andthe playing` members will count on one space only o'i' all the cards.

rllhe playing members are sliou'nin Figures 2, 3 two such members beingshown to indicate tivo variationsor examples in time designations. Thesemembers 16 here shown as discs, each having` the representations 17, 1Sot a pair ot hands and the disk may be marked ivith the numeraldesignaytion of the time such as shown at 19. ln the disk 16 the handsare shown positioned for a 1.45 time designation, Vand this disk llt thedisk 16 is placed on the dial representation inthe lirst rovv of card 1,within the eircleoi' hour numerals r6 the hand designations 17, 1S onthe disc 16 will coincide with the hand designations 9, 8 and the Wholewill appear like a clock tace with the hands at 1.115 oiclock.

l prefer to provide 150 of these discs eachy lthough this number is onlyav preferred ar rangement. In such case the minute hand designationsivill cover every minute divisionV in the hour or sixty diiterent minutepositions, and this will be duplicated, representing two completerevolutions of the minute hand.. The remaining thirty discs may bedevoted to special or extra designations. lBut a. given minutedesigna-tion Will not appear with a. given hour designation more thanonce on the discs, so that every disc will represent a different time.For instance, one disk may have the hands arranged to representthe time12.15, another 1.16 etc.

In playing the game each kplayer Will receive one or more of the cards1, preferably at least tivo, one laying the columns 10415 designatedfrom 12 oclock to 6 ocloek and the other having the columns designatedfrom 6 oclock to 12 oclock. But in the preferred `form of my inventionno two cards will be the same as tar as time designations ot the handsare concerned.v All the discs will be placed on the table ace down andthey are drawn one at a time. As a. disc is drawn it is turned face upand the person drawing it may call out the time designation printedthereon. Let us assume that a disc is drawn having the time designation12.15. The players will each look dovvn their cards designation on theircards. The player who i :lirst has discs on every dial of a card may beconsidered-the Winner, or, the player jfirst having discs on all thedials oi a rou' may be considered'the Winner. Other ways ot playing` maybe resorted to.

ln the form-shown in Figures il, 5 and (i 'each disc has, in addition toan hour hand and a minute hand on one tace, also a smallerdial 2O havinghour markings preferably in Roman numerals in order that pupils orplayers may beco ie Jfamiliar with the Roman; numerals etten used onclocks dials. ln this form o1 the invention there is a key device tomake certain that the disc is properly applied to the card. The card hasan opening 21 to receive a disk and a. key seat or recess 22 for eachdial` all ot which are similarly located relatively to the severaldials. Each disc Ihas a projection 23 which lits into the recess or seat22. in addition, each disc has a projection on its edge correspondingwith the line of the hour hand represented on the disk and it has asimilar projection 2G on its edge corresponding With the line ot theminute hand represented on the disk.: The card has recesses 27, 28extending inwardly from the edge oit the circular opening 21 and thesereceive, respectively, the projections 25 and 2G of the disk. It isunderstood that the key recesses 22 all appear at the same positions onthe dials ot' the several cards Whereas the recesses 27, 2S are arrangeddifferently on each dial according,` tothetime designation on each dial.

This form of game may be played very much like the first one. All thediscs are placed face down on the table and one dise is drawn at a timeand turned up. The player may read the time indicated bythe hands on'the disc and then look over his or her cards to see itl there is acorresponding time designation formed by the hands 17, 18 or therecesses 27, 28 on one ot the dials 4f. And if a. player linds he or shehas such a designation that player receives the disc, to be placed inthe proper opening 21 in the card. It a player is unable to read timethat player may simply look on his or her card for a dial Where the key23 of the disc will tit the recess 22 and Where the projections 25 and26 Will also lit the recesses 27 and A28. It the combination is found,that disc is placed in position on the proper card. Therefore, with thisdevice children may play the game even before they can 'tell time and inplaying the game they learn to tell time. The players having thecorresponding time designations on their cards talle the discs from timeto time as they are turned up and place the discs in the openings 21 oftheir cards until some player has a complete row of discs in place on acard or until some player has a whole card filled.

This second form prevents errors being made in the play because there isonly one place on all the cards where any given disc will tit both thekey recess 22 and the recesses 27, 28.

It will be obvious that the game may be made of any desired materialsand the marliings may be made by printing, lithographing or by any otherprocess.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

l. A game comprising members such as cards having dials thereonsimulating the face or dial of a time piece or clock, and playingmembers or discs having clock hand position indications thereon andadapted to be associated with the dial representations of said cardswhereby said clock hand indications will cooperate with said dialrepresentations to simulate different positions of the hands of a clockat different periods of time.

2. A game comprising members sueh as cards having dials thereonsimulating the face or dial of a time piece or clock and arranged inrows on said cards, and playing members or discs vhaving clock handposition indications thereon and adapted to be associated with the dialrepresentations of said cards whereby said clock hand indications willcooperate with said dial representations to simulate ydifferentpositions of the hands of a clock at different periods ofy time.

3. A game comprising members such as cards'having dials thereonsimulating the face or dial of a time piece or clock, said dialsincluding hour numbers circularly disposed, and playing members or discshaving clock hands indicated thereon, said discs being adapted to beplaced within the circle of numbers on said dials whereby said clockhand indications will point to the numbers of said dials or to someintermediate points whereby said clock hand indications and said dialswill simulate the different positions of the hands ot a clock atdifferent periods of time.

4:. A game comprising members such as cards having dials thereonsimulating the face or dial of a time piece or clock, and havingapertures to receive discs therein, said cards having a key recessextending from the edge of said aperture, all of said key recesses beingsimilarly disposed in relation to the dials, said cards having otherrecesses extending from the edge of said aperture and differentlylocated for each dial, and playing members or discs adapted to be placedin said apertures and having a key member adapted to be received in saidkey recess ot said card and having other edge projections adapted toregister with said second mentioned recesses in said card for thepurpose set forth.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York on this 27th day ofJune, 1925.

ISRAEL H. KAPLAN.

